Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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